swing

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

swings

V_ing/Gerund

swinging

V_ed/pp

swungswang

1.
(intransitive)To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
The plant swung in the breeze.
2.
(intransitive)To dance.
3.
(intransitive)To ride on a swing.
The children laughed as they swung.
4.
(intransitive)(intransitive, sex) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
5.
(intransitive)To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
Đồng nghĩa: dance on a rope, dance on nothing, dance the hempen jig, dance the Tyburn jig, dance upon nothing, dangle, hang, ride a horse foaled by an acorn, stretch hemp, string up, swing, take a ride to Tyburn, trine, truss, wag hemp
6.
(intransitive)(intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
7.
(transitive)(transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
8.
(intransitive)To fluctuate or change.
It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.
9.
(transitive)To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
He swung his sword as hard as he could.
10.
(transitive)To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
11.
(slang, transitive)To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it.
12.
(transitive)(transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

swings

1.
(countable, uncountable)The act, or an instance, of swinging.
2.
(countable, uncountable)The manner in which something is swung.
He worked tirelessly to improve his golf swing.
Door swing indicates direction the door opens.
the swing of a pendulum
3.
(countable, uncountable)The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
4.
(countable, uncountable)A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
5.
(countable, uncountable)A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
6.
(countable, uncountable)An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
7.
(countable, uncountable)(music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
8.
(countable, uncountable)The amount of change towards or away from something.
9.
(countable, uncountable)(cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
10.
(countable, uncountable)Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
11.
(countable, uncountable)(theater) In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
12.
(countable, uncountable)A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.

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Đồng nghĩa

dance on a ropedance on nothingdance the hempen jigdance the Tyburn jigdance upon nothingdangle hangride a horse foaled by an acornstretch hempstring uptake a ride to Tyburntrine trusswag hemp

Cùng gốc / liên quan

come out swingingoverswingswing at anchorswing backswing forswing into actionswingleswing-wing,swing wingnot enough room to swing a catswing both waysswing byswing for the fencesswing offswing round the circleswing tagswing that wayswing the leadswing throughmis-swingswing away

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English swyngen, from Old English swingan, from *swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (compare swingen, schwingen, zwingen, svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *swenk-, *sweng- (compare seang). Related to swink.